Rome News

The state hopes video gambling will raise money to build things like roads and bridges, but at least one Illinois county is saying not so fast.

Thus the Roman Catholic Church can only claim to be 945 years old ... not 2000 as the archbishop claims.

ST. CHARLES – Adults trying to get information about suicide prevention to teens is like sending a message in Old French to Martians who speak Egyptian.

Residents living near Old Galena Road in Peoria County question why this paved entrance/exit recently appeared leading into a farm field owned by a development group that wants to build a gravel pit there.

Now that spring is back we don't just have sunshine and warm weather. We're also stuck with our annual parade of roadside litterbugs, those folks who can't summon the will to keep their trash inside the car and feel they just have to decorate the shoulder and roadside undergrowth with it.